Spotspot are a design agency who create interactive objects for public and commercial spaces.
I was asked to produce a series of illustrations for their website describing their brand philosophy and approach to physical/interactive design.
You can see the full illustrations over on the Spotspot site…
Me and my lad make porridge pretty much every morning.
I drew this for the lovely Recipe Look website. Doodle your favourite recipe and send it over or just check it out for some hand drawn cooking know-how…
One of the main things I miss about working in an office is the cake.
Three of twenty illustrations produced for an ‘office bingo’ card for Virgin’s staff magazine ‘Roger’. The concept was devised and directed by Ian Pierce of John Brown Media.
You can see the whole card here…
I’ve always found the idea of ‘The End of the World’ kind of romantic. At least there’d be no school in the morning.
This illustration was comissioned by Plan B magazine to accompany their review of Current 93′s latest album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain.
You can see a larger version here.
Illustration to promote the ‘For the love of…’ event happening at the Zanzibar in Liverpool on the 28th. The design has to work across a variety of media – posters, t-shirts, badges, etc., so I created a set of elements that could easily be rearranged into different layouts. You can see examples of what I mean here…
The event is to raise money for c.a.l.m. As c.a.l.m. is a charity for young fellas I thought werewolves would be appropriate, as they are hairy and have bad table manners. I don’t know where the space kid came from.
Number 34 – Lanky Len
This spirit is associated with the substation at the Sefton Park end of Queens Drive, Liverpool.
Len likes eating discarded fag ends and licking cold curry sauce from styrofoam trays.
On Christmas Eve, locals leave him an offering of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and a can of Fosters. If this ritual is not observed, Len cuts off all the electricity for the surrounding area just before the Eastenders Christmas special.
‘Hercules’ is an exclusive sleeve design for makeamixa.com. MIXA is a USB cassette with 1 GB of storage and a sleeve which you can either design yourself, or dress up with an off the peg, ready to wear number. If you’d like to have the Hercules sleeve, just pick it out from the ‘pre-made’ tab when you’re makin’ your MIXA.
The illustration shows the second of the twelve labours of Hercules. For this labour Hercules had to slay the Lernaean Hydra. Although the provenance of the Hercules myth is still up for debate, historians generally agree that he wasn’t a cowboy dog.
Click on the image to follow the story…
‘The Tiger’ is one of the pieces from the Under the Bandstand production. During the show the story is presented on a slide projector, and is accompanied with live looping by Hannah Peel. As I move through the illustrations, Hannah adds new instruments to the loop, each new sound representing the atmosphere of the changing imagery, so that the timing and atmosphere of the piece are interdependent between music and visuals.
These kids running about being healthy are part of a whole heap drawn for Kellogg’s Wake Up To Breakfast microsite. The site was made by mN.
Illustrations for the beautiful new BBC site ‘Bloom‘. Not all the illustrations I produced for Bloom made it onto the site, so I’ve created a Flickr set for them that you can check out here.
Bloom was made by mN, with ‘have-to-be-seen-to-be-believed’ flowers by Daniel Brown. The whole shebang was art directed by the super-talented Suzie Webb.
